{"id":230813,"date":"2018-03-12T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=230813"},"modified":"2018-03-12T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:55:16","slug":"elon-musk-says-mars-spacecraft-could-make-short-flights-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/230813\/elon-musk-says-mars-spacecraft-could-make-short-flights-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Mars spacecraft could make short flights in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk said a rocket ship that his company is building for trips to Mars could make short flights by as early as next year.<\/p>\n

Space Exploration Technologies Corp, known as SpaceX, is \u201cmaking good progress on the ship and the booster,\u201d Musk said at the South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas, where he took questions from screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. \u201cI think we will be able to do short flights, short up and down flights, probably in the first half of next year. This is a very big booster and ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk, 46, who\u2019s long dreamed of creating a human colony on Mars, revealed in 2017 that he was building the new rocket ship with the code name \u201cBFR\u201d that would be capable of traveling anywhere on Earth in under an hour.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft would ultimately be able to make missions to the Moon or Mars, Musk said.<\/p>\n

At the music, film and media festival known as SXSW, Musk conceded that his forecasts on project completion times are sometimes a bit rosy: \u201cPeople have told me that my timelines historically have been optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk spoke at length about his role as an entrepreneur with SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Inc, his concerns about advancements in artificial intelligence (\u201cIt scares the hell out of me\u201d) and the need to put a price on carbon emissions in order to develop a sustainable energy system.<\/p>\n

He said that revenue from a project to launch satellites that would bring broadband internet access to the world, dubbed Starlink, would help fund the building of interplanetary spaceships.<\/p>\n

Musk ended his appearance at SXSW by donning a black cowboy hat and singing \u201cMy Little Buttercup\u201d with his brother, entrepreneur Kimbal Musk, who joined him on stage with a guitar.<\/p>\n

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